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John Wise

University of Southern Maine

Toxicology of metals to marine mammal cells in culture

Marine mammals are exposed to a wide variety of metals that occur naturally and anthropogenically (caused by people) in their environment. Some of these substances are know to be carcinogenic in a variety of other animal species, including humans. Cell cultures derived from exhibited and stranded marine mammals are being immortalized using telomerase. These cell lines are used to create a tissue bank that will allow standardized investigations, among different laboratories, of cellular aspects of toxicology in these species.

 

Collaborators

Julie Richmond, Steven Zinn

University of Connecticut

 

John Wise

University of Southern Maine

 

Caroline DeLong

Rochester  Institute of Technology

 

Elizabeth Koutsos

Mazuri Exotic Animal Nutrition

 

Peter Scheifele

FETCHLAB

 

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